gosling blast

noun

A transitory storm; a brief squall of rain or sleet.

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Meanings

noungosling blast (plural gosling blasts)

plural gosling blasts

  1. UKdialectaluncommonA transitory storm; a brief squall of rain or sleet.

    A 'gosling blast' might herald an April shower. - A. F.

    1970, The Countryman: A Quarterly Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Progress, page 392
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    the clouds begon to gloom and lower, Big drops o' rain fell thick and fast; I sed, sez I, "'twill soön be ower, It's nobbut but a gosling blast."

    1890, John Brown, Literae Laureatae: Or, A Selection from the Poetical Writings in Lincolnshire Language, page 56
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